Verifying your website with Google

Anytime you use a Google Webmaster tools, you’ll need to verify ownership of the website to Google. Verification with Google does not affect PageRank or your website’s performance in any way. It does allow you to use Google’s products. Verifying ownership of a website is easy and you have more than one option on how to do so. There are many reasons to verify your site with Google and here’s a list of some of the more popular reasons:

Why should I verify my website with Google?

So you can see the data Google has on your Webmaster tools account

Tell Google when your website changes or updates

Remove site pages from Google Search results

Specify to Google how your website should be indexed

Set a specific geographic region your website targets

Request a crawl rate change

Add other site owners to share your website’s data

How to verify your website with Google by uploading a file

The easiest and quickest method to verifying your website with Google is uploading a file that they provide. The file can be easily uploaded via file manager in cPanel.